Drinking the potion, sparing Lily and fearing DD was: Interrview quote re: Lily & Voldemort

[allies426]

No: HPFGUIDX 145932

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Kemper <iam.kemper at g...> wrote:
>
> On a side note... Does anyone else think DD reacted rashly with 
regards to
> the potion?  Why didn't DD save a vial of the potion to take back 
to
> Hogwarts and have one of his two Potion Masters develop an 
antidote?  I
> wonder if RAB took a vial to his old Potions Professor.  I wonder 
if that
> professor went into hiding for the first time after learning of 
RAB's death
> shortly after helping RAB with an antidote.
> .

Allie:

Absolutely!!  My thought was, "Are you crazy, there must be some 
other way!"  If he really was dying from the hand injury, maybe it 
had to be that night.  Or maybe it would take too long to develop an 
antidote.  Or maybe he *knew* what the potion was.  In that case, 
why wouldn't he tell Harry (unless he knew it was a slow-acting 
poison)?  And I know that Dumbledore does not lie to Harry, but I 
did not fall for, "Lord Voldemort would not have wanted to kill the 
drinker right away."  Harry believed that to mean, "The potion will 
not kill me."  I heard it as, "The potion will kill me later."